Hi, I'm a teacher and have never used Project 'for real'. I've just started to teach myself so that I can use this with my 6th Form students. I've a background in IT so I'm a bit worried that I just can't do what I'm trying to in Project, but then again, there could be a simple reason why!

I'm trying to set up a project plan with a number of 'summary tasks' that basically act as subheadings to help organise and structure the plan. What I then want is for the summary task to 'inherit' the times I allocate for the subtasks.

I've tried this using just a 'normal' task with the subtasks indented below it, but that doesn't allocate the total for the subtasks to the 'top level' task; and then when I use an actual 'summary task' (i.e. task/insert summary) I only get the option of one <new task> below it .... this one does 'add up' correctly i.e. the time allocated for 'new task' appears by the summary task but I can't find how to add more <new tasks> and for this behavior to continue.

Please help - and also please tell me if I'm mis-using the idea of summary and subtasks

Many thanks
Ann